Toy



v March 8, 1938. DEUCE-l 2,1m592 TOY Filed March 19, 1937 27 INVENTOR./a f g f z a 5% ATTORNEY.

Patented Mar. 8, 1938 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFEE 1 Claim.

This invention relates to toys and has special reference to a toy uponwhich may be operated a plurality of manually animated objects.

The principal object of the invention is to provide simple means forsimultaneous movement of a plurality of figures.

Other novel advantages of the device will appear in the followingdescription thereof.

Figure 1 is a plan view of the top of a receptacle in which theoperating mechanism is inclosed.

Figure 2 is a plan view of the receptacle inverted and showing themechanism therein partly broken away.

Figure 3 is an enlarged fragmental sectional view of the arrangement ofsome of the cooperative parts and diagrammatic view of an object on thesurface of the receptacle operated by the mechanism, showing the shafts9 and H1 at right angles to their normal position as shown in Fig. 2 tobetter illustrate the operation of the animated objects.

In this embodiment of the invention I have illustrated the receptacle asbeing of sheet metal, circular in form, and of sufficient height only tohouse the operating mechanism, and four objects are shown as beingoperated simultaneously, one over each circular ground surface, asindicated at 2; the top of the cylindrical housing being illustrated atI and the side walls thereof at 3.

In the plan view as shown in Figure 1, I have simply suggested theposition of the object to be animated as by the parallel dotted lines 44and 55, and which objects may be representative of a chicken, other birdor animal, for example, having a neck lever 6, head I, and tail lever 8,and which, obviously, may be modified as desired, and therefore they arehere shown only diagrammatically.

It will also be noted that the figures or objects, whatever they may be,are illustrated as being greater in extent than the circular area 2allotted to each for operation thereover so that the extremities of thefigures or objects overlap these areas and therefore must be positionedin such a manner upon their operative shafts as not to conflict one withthe other, and the objects 4-4 travel or rotate clockwise while thefigures 55 rotate in the opposite direction or anti-clockwise. Thespecial feature here intended to attract the attention of the observeris that these animated objects appear closer together than might beanticipated in a mechanically operated device and in viewing same thewonder occurs why they do not interlock or foul one another, thusbecoming more attractive.

The mechanism comprises three parallel shafts 9, ill, and l l, theybeing journalled adjacent their ends in the side walls of the receptacleor any 5 other suitable way desired, the shaft 9 being the driving shaftand upon one end of which externally of the receptacle is installed acrank l2 for manual operation thereof. Upon this shaft is installed thesprocket driving wheel l3 which 10 meshes at one lateral extremity withthe cogged wheel M fixed to the shaft l0 and on its opposite extremitywith the cogged wheel I5 fixed to the shaft H for the driving of same.Here it is to be noted that all of these wheels are of the sheet 15metal pressed type for cheapness of construction, though may beotherwise formed if desired. The sprocket l3 also meshes at its top withthe sprocket wheel "5, shrunk or tightly pressed onto the central shaftIT for rotating same, and 20 this shaft, slightly above the sprocket Itcarries thereupon a similar sprocket it which meshes with the twoopposed cogged wheels l9 and 20 one upon either side thereof and whichcogged wheels form the driving members for two dia 25 metrically opposedsimilarly sized sprocket wheels 2i and 22; each of these four wheelsoperating an animated object upon the uppermost surface of the platformof the device. While the shaft I! is illustrated as being suspended from30 the deck I and rotatable therein, the lower end may be suspended inany desired manner either upon the transverse shaft 9, or bya suitabletransverse member not shown. It will be noted that the cogged wheels 89and 2|! have long depending 35 cogs 23 therein so that they may bedriven by the sprocket wheel I8 and upon opposite sides thereof abovethe sprockets 2| and 22, this particular arrangement of overlappingsprockets and gears being for convenience in the close grouping of 40same, as more clearly illustrated in Figure 3.

Thus it will be seen that each of the four larger sprocket and coggedwheels is carried upon a small tubular gudgeon or journal 24 extendingupwardly through the deck I and above 5 which deck each journal carriesfixed thereto the disc 25 upon which the figure to be animated iscarried, bird or animal as the case may be, and the body of which isdiagrammatically illustrated at 26, Fig. 3, and by the dotted lines 4-5,Fig. 1. 5

Directly beneath each of these central journals and below theirrespective driving wheels is installed a star wheel illustrated at 21,two on the shaft l0 and two on the shaft H, and loosely carried upon theshaft 9 are radially disposed 55 lever members 28 reaching to a pointdirectly over a star wheel for each and having their extreme outer endsprovided with a weight indicated at 29 sufficiently heavy to maintainthe head I, for example, on the neck arm 6 of the animal or bird inraised position, as well as the tail 8 if so desired, the connectionbetween the end of the lever 28 and the inner end of the neck and taillevers being accomplished as by a cord or the like indicated at 30 forsuch operating engagement. These levers are pivoted at the oppositeextremities of the body portion as at 3| and 32 respectively.

The star wheels are shown as having five points simply as a conveniencein making all of the objects operate uniformly or these may be varied sothat one or more of them may have a different number of motions andcause one bird to peck faster than another, as desired. It is apparent,however, that when the drive shaft is rotated manually by the crank l2the other two shafts l9 and II will also be rotated as well as the fourlarge discs for operating the animal or birds on the deck of the device,two of said discs rotating in clockwise direction and two inanticlockwise direction, and with their tails and heads simultaneouslyoperating providing an attractive and amusing toy.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim and desire to secure byLetters Patent, is:

A toy comprising in combination a cylindrical receptacle having a fixeddeck like top, a plurality of circular rotatable discs mounted abovesaid deck and upon each of which discs is a representation of an animalhaving extending portions thereupon to be animated, a power shaftjournalled within the walls of the receptacle and disposed diametricallytherein, two other shafts journalled within the walls of the receptacleand spaced equally one upon either side of said power shaft, each ofthese two shafts being aligned beneath a pair of said discs, meanswhereby said two shafts are simultaneously operated by said power shaft,and means upon said two shafts one beneath each disc and operable by thepower shaft for animating the extensions of said animal representations,and means for simultaneously rotating said discs by the operation ofsaid power shaft.

PETER DELICH.

